In mojewypieki.com I found a tempting recipe for Raffaello babeczki kinda things. Nearly made them long time ago, but when ordering Raffaello from Ocado I found out a box costs £5, I thought I’d wait till I go to Poland. Sure enough, same big box of lovely coconutty balls in Biedronka were 13 PLN.

Last night when checking up the recipe again I read the comments underneath, some saying the white chocolate cream was far too sweet. The alarm bells went off in my head, remember 3BIT cake from the same website that ended up in the bin, due to sugar overload.

I ended up making the muffin bases nearly exactly the way recommended in the recipe, if  I had checked I had enough desiccated coconut and some kind of coconut liqueur- it would have been exact.

Kitchen aid whipped 150 g of soft butter with 120 g of caster sugar, 3 whole eggs went in, 120 g of plain flour plus 1,5 tsp of baking powder. 70 g of desiccated coconut recommended was replaced by 20 g of coconut and 50 g of ground almonds.

This amount made me 12 large muffins, which baked for over 20 minutes in 180 degrees.

When cooled I spooned out some holes, filled with strawberry jam( next time it will be raspberry and fresh raspberries, for the tang), 3 small blueberries in top. Then the Dr Oetker chocolate cream, finished with toasted desiccated coconut and a Raffaello ball on top.

Very pleasant, not too sweet. Next time I think I’ll try some kind of white cream, but for now some of these will travel to Swindon tomorrow.